Montag, 2. Juni 2014

Top-50 Football Players - June 2014 edition

Too much time passed since we published the top 50 list of the players world wide last time. We should publish them more regularly, but unlike media seems to suggest, the top football players actually don't change that much from month to month. Even though now four months passed since the last list, only six new players entered. In the table blow they are marked green. One of them is very surprising and will not be part of many top lists: Scott Brown from Celtic FC.

Rank

Player

GoalImpact

Age

PeakGI

Team

Nation

Previous Rank

GI Diff

1

Cristiano Ronaldo

196.9

29.3

202.7

Real Madrid

Portugal

1

+1.2

2

Philipp Lahm

185.7

30.6

196.5

Bayern München

Deutschland

2

-3.7

3

Bastian Schweinsteiger

182.2

29.8

188.3

Bayern München

Deutschland

4

+1.8

4

Lionel Messi

181.7

26.9

184.0

FC Barcelona

Argentinien

5

+6.3

5

Cesc Fàbregas

179.4

27.1

182.1

FC Barcelona

Spanien

3

-1.9

6

Dani Alves

176.7

31.1

191.9

FC Barcelona

Brasilien

7

+6.6

7

Victor Valdés

173.5

32.4

173.5

FC Barcelona

Spanien

20

+17.8

8

Wayne Rooney

172.8

28.6

178.2

Manchester United

England

6

+2.1

9

Thomas Müller

172.5

24.8

176.9

Bayern München

Deutschland

15

+12.3

10

Sergio Ramos

171.5

28.2

176.6

Real Madrid

Spanien

13

+7.7

11

Manuel Neuer

169.3

28.2

169.3

Bayern München

Deutschland

10

+4.4

12

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

168.0

32.7

193.9

Paris Saint-Germain

Schweden

12

+4.0

13

Iker Casillas

166.4

33.0

166.4

Real Madrid

Spanien

9

+0.9

14

Javier Mascherano

164.4

30.0

170.6

FC Barcelona

Argentinien

8

-1.5

15

Mesut Özil

163.5

25.7

164.8

Arsenal FC

Deutschland

14

+1.9

16

Xabi Alonso

162.4

32.5

187.7

Real Madrid

Spanien

11

-1.7

17

Petr Cech

159.3

32.0

159.3

Chelsea FC

Tschechien

16

+1.0

18

Karim Benzema

157.2

26.4

158.3

Real Madrid

Frankreich

24

+4.8

19

Per Mertesacker

156.8

29.7

162.9

Arsenal FC

Deutschland

21

+1.3

20

Piqué

156.6

27.3

159.9

FC Barcelona

Spanien

34

+10.3

21

Arjen Robben

156.0

30.3

165.2

Bayern München

Niederlande

23

+1.6

22

Gaël Clichy

156.0

28.8

161.5

Manchester City

Frankreich

19

+0.1

23

Iniesta

155.7

30.1

162.4

FC Barcelona

Spanien

22

+1.1

24

John Terry

155.5

33.5

185.2

Chelsea FC

England

17

-2.6

25

Mats Hummels

154.4

25.4

156.2

Borussia Dortmund

Deutschland

25

+2.2

26

Busquets

154.2

25.9

154.6

FC Barcelona

Spanien

28

+4.5

27

Gregory van der Wiel

152.2

26.3

153.0

Paris Saint-Germain

Niederlande

26

+1.7

28

Patrice Evra

151.1

33.1

178.9

Manchester United

Frankreich

18

-5.4

29

João Moutinho

150.7

27.8

155.0

AS Monaco

Portugal

30

+1.7

30

Marcelo

150.1

26.1

150.2

Real Madrid

Brasilien

33

+3.5

31

Neven Subotic

150.1

25.5

151.8

Borussia Dortmund

Serbien

27

-0.3

32

Gianluigi Buffon

150.0

36.3

150.0

Juventus

Italien

29

+0.5

33

Jérôme Boateng

148.9

25.8

149.8

Bayern München

Deutschland

38

+4.9

34

Helton

148.3

36.0

148.3

FC Porto

Brasilien

32

+0.3

35

Ángel Di María

147.6

26.3

148.4

Real Madrid

Argentinien

44

+5.1

36

Mario Götze

146.6

22.0

162.0

Bayern München

Deutschland

88

+10.8

37

Ashley Cole

145.6

33.4

175.2

Chelsea FC

England

31

-2.5

38

Robert Lewandowski

145.4

25.8

146.2

Borussia Dortmund

Polen

50

+3.8

39

Fernandinho

144.8

29.1

150.5

Manchester City

Brasilien

39

+1.3

40

Luis Suárez

144.5

27.3

147.8

Liverpool FC

Uruguay

56

+3.8

41

Pedro

144.3

26.8

146.5

FC Barcelona

Spanien

46

+2.3

42

Marcel Schmelzer

144.1

26.3

145.0

Borussia Dortmund

Deutschland

41

+1.0

43

Kun Agüero

143.9

26.0

143.9

Manchester City

Argentinien

36

-0.8

44

Jan Vertonghen

143.8

27.1

146.6

Tottenham Hotspur

Belgien

37

-0.6

45

Vincent Kompany

143.8

28.2

148.9

Manchester City

Belgien

59

+4.0

46

Pepe Reina

143.8

31.8

143.8

SSC Napoli

Spanien

42

+0.8

47

Scott Brown

143.2

28.9

148.7

Celtic FC

Schottland

71

+4.9

48

Pepe

143.1

31.3

159.8

Real Madrid

Portugal

58

+3.2

49

Darijo Srna

143.0

32.1

166.3

Shakhtar Donetsk

Kroatien

35

-2.6

50

Wesley Sneijder

142.8

30.0

149.0

Galatasaray

Niederlande

53

+1.6

Other notable changes are

Victor Valdes spiked because Barca didn't perform that well in his absence. Barca lost eight of the fifthy-nine matches this season, of which five of the twenty-five without Valdes.